Award Winners

We are pleased to announce IMC 2026’s awards. Congratulations to the winners!

Best Paper Award

Measuring Service Congestion, Sharing, and Pacing in a Residential Access Network
Shuyue Yu (Columbia University), Bruce Spang (Netflix), Carson Garland (Columbia University), Kevin Chen (YouTube / Netflix), Ramki Gummadi (Google DeepMind), Gil Zussman (Columbia University), Ethan Katz-Bassett (Columbia University / Google), Te-Yuan Huang (Netflix), Renata Teixeira (Netflix)

Best Student Paper Award

Measuring Starlink Aviation Around the World
Jinwei Zhao (University of Victoria), Jianping Pan (University of Victoria)

Community Contribution Award

Lightscope: Turning Production Machines into Telescopes and Honeypots
Eric Kapitanski (University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute), Jelena Mirkovic (University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute)

Test of Time Awards

The Matter of HeartbleedIMC 2014
Zakir Durumeric, James Kasten, David Adrian, J. Alex Halderman, Michael Bailey, Frank Li, Nicholas Weaver, Johanna Amann, Jethro Beekman, Mathias Payer, and Vern Paxson
For its pioneering Internet-scale analysis of the Heartbleed vulnerability and its lasting contributions to measuring vulnerability exposure, remediation, and the effectiveness of operator notification.
Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by CensorshipIMC 2011
Alberto Dainotti, Claudio Squarcella, Emile Aben, Kimberly C. Claffy, Marco Chiesa, Michele Russo, and Antonio Pescapè
For pioneering the measurement and characterization of country-wide Internet shutdowns, establishing methodologies that have enabled sustained research and operational monitoring of Internet outages and censorship worldwide.